Portal:Somerset/Did you know/2

From Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives:

... that the Sun (pictured) and Pluto are only 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) apart on the Somerset Space Walk?
... that Chard Museum in Somerset, England, includes a collection of early articulated artificial limbs?
... that The George Inn in Norton St Philip, Somerset, was used as an army headquarters during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, and then as a courtroom to try the rebels in the Bloody Assizes?
... that Jasper Conran bought the 18th-century Ven House in rural Somerset and complained about plans to extend a slurry pit and install polytunnels close to the land?
...that the small Land Yeo river in Somerset, England, has powered at least ten watermills in the last 1,000 years?